Pancake turners

ABSTRACT

Apparatus used in cooking pancakes comprising: a flat vertical plate having an enlarged bottom section with a horizontally elongated flat top lip, the section having four vertical bores extending downward from the lip. These pancake turning tools each have an elongated member with means at a free end adapted to detachably engage one end of an elongated handle. The handle is disposed detachably in one bore. The members, means pointing downward, are disposed in other corresponding bores.

UIIIIEG mates Patent Williamson et a1.

1 Mar. 12, 1974 PANCAKE TURNERS Inventors: Allen 0. Williamson; GeorgeSpecter. both of c/o George Spector. 3615 Woolworth Bldg, 233 Broadway.New York. NY. 10007 Filed: Aug. 9. 1972 Appl. No.: 278,948

11.5. CI 294/7. 206/75. 248/376 Int. Cl. A47j 43/28 Field of Search294/] R, 2, 7, 8;

206/16 R. 16 8.16 D. 45.14., 75; 16/114 R, 115. 116; 211/60 R, 60 T. 87,69,123,124;

[56] References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS 2.252.873 8/1941 Vnssos eta1. 294/7 2.487.174 11/1949 Petre 206/16 R 2.180.572 11/1939 White206/16 D 2.522.213 9/1950 Doniger 211/60 T X 3.236.366 2/1966 Broda eta1 211/69 X 3.583.556 6/1971 Wagner 21 N69 X Primary E.raminer-Evon C.Blunk Assistant Examiner-.lohnny D. Cherry 57 ABSTRACT Apparatus used incooking pancakes comprising: a flat vertical plate having an enlargedbottom section with a horizontally elongated flat top lip, the sectionhaving four vertical bores extending downward from the lip. Thesepancake turning tools each have an elongated member with means at a freeend adapted to detachably engage one end of an elongated handle. Thehandle is disposed detachably in one bore. The members. means pointingdownward. are disposed in other corresponding bores.

1 Claim, 3 Drawing Figures PANCAKE TURNERS SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION ThisInvention is directed toward apparatus used in cooking pancakes in whichpancake turning tools can be stored detachably when-not in use. To thisend, a vertical flat plate is secured detachably to a vertical wall in aposition convenient for use. The plate has a bottom section with a topflat horizontal horizontally elongated lip. The section has a pluralityof spaced vertical bores. An elongated handle is detachably disposed inone of the bores. Each of the other bores is adapted to detachably holdan elongated member forming part of a corresponding pancake turner tool.The free end of each member has means for detachably engagingthe handle.Each member with the means disposed downward fits detachably in acorresponding bore. The upper end of each member is connected with anoffset member to a flat rectangular plate which is used to slide under apancake for turning.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS In the drawings:

HO. 1 is a perspective view of this invention;

FIG. 2 is a plain view of a pancake turning tool used in the invention;and

FIG. 3 is a side view of the tool of Figure.

DETAILED DESCRlPTlON OF PREFERRED EMBODIMENT Referring now to FIGS. 1-3,a flat vertical rectangular plate has top disposed ring like members 12through which screws or other securing means can extend to secure theplate detachably to a vertical wall. Plate 10 has an enlarged bottomsection 14 with a top flat horizontal horizontally elongatd lip 16.

The section carries four spaced vertical bores which extend downwardfrom the lip. The first of these bores 18 has a relatively largediameter; the remaining three bores 20, 22 and 24 are all of likesmaller diameter.

An elongated cylindrical handle 26 is detachably enageable with bore 18.

The pancake turning tools each having a rectangular pancake turningplate 28 connected via offset 30 to one end of an elongated bar 32. Theother end of bar 32 has a reduced diameter screw 34 engageabledetachably with a threaded axial bore in handle 26.

Each tool can be connected to the handle for use or can be supported inthe plate 10 with bar 32 and screw 34 disposed in one of bores 20, 22and 24 with plate 28 resting against the surface of the upper portion ofplate 10.

The tools differ only in the member and placement of diamond shapedrecesses 36 and C-shaped receses 38 incorporated into the plates for thepurpose ofdecoratively shaping the surfaces of pancakes being cooked.

While certain novel features of my invention have been shown anddescribed and are pointed out in the annexed claims, it will beunderstood that various omissions, substitutions and changes in theforms and details of the device illustrated and in its operation can bemade by those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit ofthe invention.

We claim as follows:

1. A kit for cooking pancakes, comprising a storage rack and a set ofpancake cooking tools. said rack com prising a flat rear wall integralat one end thereof with an offset forwardly extending base providingthereby a surface transverse to said wall, said base including a seriesof spaced holes opening at the said surface spaced from said wall, saidbase including a planar bottom face parallel to said surface, each ofsaid tools comprising flat plates with decorative recesses connectedalong a central axis to an offset elongated shaft in combination with aremovable handle at the end of said shaft remote from the plate, saidshaft end adapted to fit snugly in each said hole, including an enlargedhole adopted to receive the said handle, said holes being in parallelalignment with said wall and wherein the offset of said shafts is suchthat said plates will abut said wall when said shafts are mounted insaid holes.

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1. A kit for cooking pancakes, comprising a storage rack and a set ofpancake cooking tools, said rack comprising a flat rear wall integral atone end thereof with an offset forwardly extending base providingthereby a surface transverse to said wall, said base including a seriesof spaced holes opening at the said surface spaced from said wall, saidbase including a planar bottom face parallel to said surface, each ofsaid tools comprising flat plates with decorative recesses connectedalong a central axis to an offset elongated shaft in combination with aremovable handle at the end of said shaft remote from the plate, saidshaft end adapted to fit snugly in each said hole, including an enlargedhole adopted to receive the said handle, said holes being in parallelalignment with said wall and wherein the offset of said shafts is suchthat said plates will abut said wall when said shafts are mounted insaid holes.